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Ivory Founts

"An 18-minute parody on the business of making movies in Canada. Actually a film-within-a-film, it represents itself as a documentary in the making of Oblivion, an awful film that has met with surprising critical success. Oblivion, shot in color, is unreeled as part of the surrounding documentary, shot in black and white but printed on color stock to give it a hint of tint. The film is actually a Workshop group project and in it the group‚Äôs own fascination with film, its possibilities and its paradoxes get a thorough, if light-hearted going-over." [Michael Walsh, "Student film mood: Calmness supplants revolution," Province?, ca. 1973]; "Aikenhead is an alumnus of the Ontario Arts Council‚Äôs film apprentice program who is now studying at Simon Fraser University. Ivory Founts was a funnier and more sophisticated filmmaker-making-a-film film than any other I have seen. This type of approach seems mandatory at student film festivals. I was uncomfortable that he won top prize, but his film worked. He put into it just about every clich?©d image of the filmmaker imaginable. It was a fun film." [Kirwan Cox, "Opinion: The Canadian Film Festival," Cinema Canada, October/January 1973/74, no. 10-11, pp. 76-77.]; "(This film was produced as a Group Project for 16mm Workshop, shot in Eastman Colour Negative 7254, 4-X Negative, Double-X Neg, and printed on colour print stock.) The Filmmaker‚Äôs notes for this film:
"Sometimes, above the gross and palpable things
Of this diurnal sphere, his spirit flies
On awful wing; and with its destined skies
Holds premature and mystic communings:
Till such unearthly intercourses shed
A visible halo round his mortal head". - Keats" [Spring Arts Festival, March 11-April 8, S.F.U. Film Workshop Productions 1973, program] Won the Norman McLaren prize (for best film of the festival) at the 5th Canadian Student Film Festival, Montreal, 1973. [Cox article]; Participated in the International Student Film Festival – "Cinestud ‘73" in Amsterdam, Netherlands." [SFU News Release, 25 March 1974]. Director Aikenhead continues to work in the film industry: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0014589/

In Black and White

Also held by "Moving Images Distribution" in video and 16mm formats: "This work asks the viewer to re-examine the right of the police to harass adults because of their sexual preferences. A careful, precise film which raises the question in a reserved and understated style." 10 min., b/w, 1979 [http://www.movingimages ca/catalogue/Experimental/Experimental_m.html#RTFToC38b]. "Television, washroom sex, and state repression." [Program for 1978/79 SFU Student Workshop Films showing, 15 June 1979]

Human on My Faithless Arm

Also held by "Moving Images Distribution" in video and 16mm formats: "This passionate and poetic work explores the social pressures experienced by a lesbian mother who is deaf. Dramatization, front screen projection, distorted sound, and optical printing effects convey a sense of the isolation, struggle, determination and love that characterize this woman's life. In particular, viewers are drawn into the world of this deaf woman by the filmmaker's manipulation of sound--removing soft consonants from spoken words and eliminating sound altogether when the speaker no longer faces the camera--to mimic the way a deaf person hears. The film "contains a marvellous passage where light rays leave their trace on silver halide crystals. This light writing is achieved by signing in the dark with a penlight as the voice-over translates the prose piece, 'Lullyby,' by W.H. Auden." (Maria Insell)" 20 min., 1987 [http://www.movingimages.ca/catalogue/Experimental/Experimental_t.html#RTFToC58a] The film also won honourable mention for experimental film at the 18th Canadian Student Film Festival in 1987 (Montreal): http://www.ffm-montreal.org/palmares/en_etud_1987.html. The director, Valerie Tereszko (who is also hearing impaired) continues to work in cinema.

Go

"Anti-war film alternating fast-paced Japanese game Go with black and white stills of war scenes." SFU Film Workshop Retrospective list]; "Combination of still in b&w and colour motion; best of his style." [Films by the S.F.U. Film Workshop, Wednesday, March 29, 1972, program annotation] According to early listing in arrangement & description section of F-232 collection file, "Go" and "Riot" elements go together (same year, same director, slight difference in length).

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